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Assessment of the Value of a Plantation

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0956
Abstract

This collection consists of a two-page draft document assessing the value of a plantation in Mayan County, Alabama from circa 1855.

Dates: circa 1855
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Alfred T. Hamilton Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS.0187
Scope and Contents

This collection contains copies of letters written by Alfred T. Hamilton to his father, 1858 and 1859. He was a doctor in Franklin County, and his letters discuss the medical conditions of this patients as well as living conditions in the South. Copies of 2 letters from James B. Childs to Mrs. Noble in 1961 regarding the location of the town.

Dates: 1858 - 1859
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

William Giles Harding Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0189
Scope and Contents This .42 linear feet collection is divided into three series: Series I includes original, handwritten general correspondence sent to William Giles Harding primarily from Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1827-1872. The letters discuss Agricultural and Meterological Societies, importation of Llamas and Alpacas from South America to Tennessee, the Civil War, and politics. It also includes an address by Matthew Fontaine Maury before the...
Dates: 1827-1872
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Stanley F. Horn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0213
Abstract The Stanley F. Horn Collection of Tennessee Manuscripts contains more than six hundred individual pieces. Although they range in date from 1782 to the 1870s, most are concentrated in the first four decades of the nineteenth century. Virtually all of the early governors of Tennessee are represented by one or more documents. There are also papers of Sam Houston, John Sevier, JohnQuincy Adams, James Robertson, Davy Crockett, and others; there is one legal writ bearing the unique signature mark...
Dates: 1780 - 1905
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Thomas S. Jones/John R. Jones Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0231
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the accounting records of a plantation in Charleston, Mississippi; the correspondence of two brothers, Thomas S. Jones [who was in charge of the plantation] and John R. Jones [who was practicing medicine in Marshall County, Tennessee]; and speech. Buleah Davis donated this collection in 1939.

Dates: 1848 - 1859
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

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